brendanmcewen.bsky.social
Working on decarbonizing buildings & transportation. Huge fan o’ nature, cities, art. Tend to use this platform to read & learn, but will try to tweet on occasion.
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Robbie Robertson wrote that one! 😉
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It is also kind of funny, cuz it could so easily be interpreted to mean mediocre or survivable… “like, I mean, it’s *livable*”
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Calcutta is absolutely amazing too though. Magnificent in so many respects.
My favourite thing was how erudite so many Bengalis are, and the academic titles on every street bookseller’s blanket
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Tokyo, I believe… and it’s pretty darn pleasant
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Fear
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Is their anything like “wrong” (eg bad for health or environment) with fortification with B12, D, etc? If not, is a key take away that PBM is typical more nutritious than animals?
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From Flyvbjerg and Gardner, How Big Things Get Done
PV is the least likely to go overbudget, and if it does then it is by the smallest amount, and nuclear is the most likely to go overbudget, and by the largest amount.
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Thanks very much
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Sorry to not just read it…
But did they talk about unintentional anaerobic digestion & CH4 leaks much? I would hope scientists get very comfy this is not a concern before deploying…
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Thanks - I’ll check it out!
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… course would play into the fallacy that kWhs are worth the same… just kind of an interesting real world LCOE retrospective…
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Be nice to see this as a ratio of $/kWh/yr (for the supplies at any rate)
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Very sincerely, every bit of travel we do in an EV, on a train, on a bus, on a bike/e-bike, by walking or rolling, or by other active transport, helps the climate, helps air quality, and helps national & economic security. We should fund these as national security infrastructure.
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And that pushed clean power to a record 44% of China's power...
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Thanks - gonna check it out
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Not sure that’s necessarily the solution here. And we need to avoid hindering properly functioning markets. But we need to ensure such monopolism isn’t going to keibosh the energy transition…
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Dude, this is AWESOME ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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... anyway, hope you'll forgive my sharing my own anecdote :)
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Glad you're safe :)
Our house got broken into ~10 times as a kid... one year, the guy broke in and literally stole all the Xmas presents! He was apprehended selling wrapped presents for $5 on Main & Hastings. I always felt he had a bit of sense of humour :)
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The main question for the NEB (the pipeline regulator back in the day) was whether there were volumes to fill the line, arrangements at terminus, and how the whole thing would avoid being a hunk of rust in the ground (financing, ownership, etc)